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TileDB Vector Search with LangChain

TileDB vector search is now available in LangChain, one of the most popular large language model (LLM) application development frameworks. In this blog, we explore how to use LangChain and TileDB to implement powerful LLM applications. We present 2 examples that allow LLMs to: Leverage external kno...

Nikos Papailiou

Principal Software Engineer
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blog post
Nov 08, 2023
Geospatial

Why TileDB for Geometries

Spatial data is dominant in numerous applications, such as earth observation, location-based services, defense, biomedic...
author

Norman Barker

VP of Geospatial
15 min read
blog post
Oct 10, 2023
Data Management
Data Science
Generative AI
Fundraising

TileDB closes $34M Series B to advance the vision of the ‘modern database’ as an alternative to the ‘modern data stack’

TileDB envisions evolving the ‘database’ by integrating multiple data modalities, runnable code and versatile compute in...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
blog post
Aug 23, 2023
Genomics
Single Cell

TileDB 101: Single Cell

In this article I will cover the basics of TileDB’s support for single-cell data. At its core, TileDB is a database syst...
author

Aaron Wolen

Principal Software Engineer
21 min read
blog post
Aug 01, 2023
Data Management
Data Science
Vector Database
Generative AI

TileDB 101: Vector Search

In this article we provide a quickstart tutorial on the vector search capabilities of TileDB. I strongly recommend you r...
author

Isaiah Norton

VP of Engineering
11 min read
blog post
Aug 01, 2023
Data Management
Data Science
Vector Database
Generative AI

Why TileDB as a Vector Database

Vector databases have recently gained popularity due to the advent of Generative AI and the proliferation of large langu...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
28 min read
blog post
Jul 20, 2023
Newsletters

TileDB newsletter - July 2023

Hello! Summer is in full swing, and we have been busy publishing more learning content here on the blog. Check out the f...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
5 min read
blog post
Jun 28, 2023
Data Science

TileDB Cloud: Task Graphs

One of the key features of TileDB Cloud is its totally serverless, distributed computing framework, which allows users t...
author

Seth Shelnutt

CTO, TileDB
14 min read
blog post
Jun 09, 2023
Data Science

TileDB Cloud: User-Defined Functions

TileDB Cloud supports numerous unique capabilities that stand out compared to traditional databases and other database-l...
author

Seth Shelnutt

CTO, TileDB
12 min read
blog post
Jun 08, 2023
Genomics

TileDB 101: Population Genomics

TileDB 101: Population Genomics In this article I will cover the very basics of TileDB’s support for variant (VCF) data....
author

Jeremy Leipzig

Senior Software Engineer
17 min read
blog post
Jun 01, 2023
Geospatial

TileDB 101: Point Clouds

In this introductory 101 article I will cover the basics of how to ingest point cloud data into a TileDB array, and then...
author

Margriet Groenendijk

Geospatial Data Scientist
8 min read
blog post
May 24, 2023
Data Management

TileDB 101: Cloud Object Storage

One of the strongest capabilities of TileDB is that it is a cloud-native database, i.e., particularly optimized for clou...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
6 min read
blog post
May 17, 2023
Data Science

TileDB 101: Arrays

TileDB is a powerful multimodal database, which allows you to manage and analyze complex data faster, while dramatically...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
13 min read
blog post
May 03, 2023
Data Science

TileDB Cloud: Notebooks

TileDB Cloud: Notebooks TileDB Cloud allows you to easily create, run and share Jupyter notebooks. The notebooks are int...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
12 min read
blog post
Apr 28, 2023
Dataframes

TileDB 101: Dataframes

In this introductory 101 article, we’ll cover the basics of how to ingest CSV data into TileDB so that it can be accesse...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
8 min read
blog post
Apr 27, 2023
Newsletters

TileDB newsletter - April 2023

Hello! Now that spring has officially started, it's time for some official updates from TileDB — including an exciting c...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
5 min read
blog post
Mar 28, 2023
Data Management

TileDB Launches Cross-Language Access to Single-Cell Data

Cambridge, MA, March 20, 2023: TileDB, the database for any complex data and compute, today announced the launch of Tile...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
3 min read
blog post
Feb 02, 2023
Newsletters

TileDB newsletter - February 2023

Hi there, We wrapped up 2022 and have a range of TileDB Cloud features and open-source updates to share. Let's get strai...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
4 min read
blog post
Oct 21, 2022
Data Management

TileDB: A Refresher on What and Why

I was writing the preface of our new docs (yes, I am writing a lot of our docs - it helps me test every corner of our pr...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
18 min read
blog post
May 26, 2022
Newsletters

TileDB newsletter - May 2022

Hello! Spring is here at TileDB, and we have updates to share! The biggest of which is our recent strategic investment f...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
4 min read
blog post
May 25, 2022
Data Management

Getting Started with TileDB Cloud in < 4 Minutes

TileDB Cloud is a universal database platform that manages all your data and code assets, and enables fast and collabora...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
8 min read
blog post
May 17, 2022
Data Management
Fundraising

TileDB Secures Investment From Verizon Ventures

Cambridge, MA, May 17, 2022: TileDB, Inc., a pioneering database company, announced today that it has received a strateg...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
blog post
Apr 29, 2022
Geospatial

Analyzing LiDAR and SAR Data with Capella Space and TileDB

This blog post summarizes a recent webinar hosted by myself, Jason Brown (Remote Sensing Image Scientist and Community E...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
5 min read
blog post
Feb 11, 2022
Data Management
Geospatial

AIS Data Management & Time-Series Analytics on TileDB Cloud

This blog post summarizes the recent webinar we hosted about an exciting maritime traffic (AIS) data use case, which we ...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
5 min read
blog post
Feb 04, 2022
Data Management

Why Arrays as a Universal Data Model

These are exciting times for anyone working on data problems, as the data industry is as hot and as hyped as ever. Numer...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
23 min read
blog post
Jan 20, 2022
Data Management
Fundraising

Amgen Ventures Invests in TileDB to Advance Their Universal Database

Cambridge, MA, January 20, 2022: TileDB, Inc. a pioneering database company, announced today a strategic investment from...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
3 min read
blog post
Dec 22, 2021
Newsletters

TileDB newsletter - December 2021

Hello! The fall-winter season has been an exciting time at TileDB. We received strategic investments from Lockheed Marti...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
4 min read
blog post
Dec 02, 2021
Data Management

The New Data Economics

I have been an academic and a computer scientist most of my life. Before founding TileDB as a company in 2017, I started...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
18 min read
blog post
Nov 17, 2021
Genomics
Data Management

Population genomics is a data management problem

We recently hosted a webinar that delved into the immense challenges involved with managing and analyzing large-scale ge...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
10 min read
blog post
Oct 12, 2021
Data Management

Technical walk-through of the TileDB Cloud universal database

This blog post summarizes the recent webinar that Seth Shelnutt (our CTO) and I presented about TileDB Cloud, a revoluti...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
blog post
Sep 29, 2021
Data Management
Fundraising

Lockheed Martin Ventures and NTT Docomo Ventures Invest in TileDB, Inc. to Advance Their Universal Database

Cambridge, MA, September 29, 2021: TileDB, Inc. a pioneering database company, announced today that it has received stra...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
3 min read
blog post
Sep 21, 2021
Data Management

A deep dive into the TileDB data format & storage engine

Recently we hosted a webinar where I delivered a deep dive into TileDB Embedded, the open-source storage engine that pow...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
4 min read
blog post
Aug 04, 2021
Data Management

Debunking Purpose-Built Data Systems Enter the Universal Database

Last week we had a coming out party for our audacious vision at TileDB. We hosted a webinar where I shared what we have ...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
9 min read
blog post
Jul 07, 2021
Newsletters

TileDB newsletter - July 2021

Hi there! TileDB has grown since we last reached out. We have put our Series A funding to work — tripling the size of ou...
author

Mike Broberg

Technical Marketing Manager
4 min read
blog post
Sep 22, 2020
Data Science

TileDB as the Data Engine for Machine Learning

A recent blog post by the OpenML community called “Finding a standard dataset format for machine learning” outlines a se...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
16 min read
blog post
Jul 14, 2020
Data Management
Fundraising

TileDB Closes $15M Series A for Industry’s First Universal Data Engine

Cambridge, MA, July 14, 2020: TileDB, Inc. has secured a $15M Series A investment round led by Two Bear Capital, joined ...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
6 min read
blog post
Jun 23, 2020
Geospatial

Open SAR data and scalable analytics

SAR stands for Synthetic Aperture Radar. NASA has been using it since the 1970s to detect sub-meter changes to the Earth...
author

Norman Barker

VP of Geospatial
8 min read
blog post
May 05, 2020
Dataframes
Data Science

TileDB 2.0 and The Future of Data Science

The Helicopter View TileDB is an open-source and cloud-native storage engine for chunked, compressed, multi-dimensional ...
author

Stavros Papadopoulos

Founder and CEO, TileDB
7 min read
blog post
May 05, 2020
Data Science

TileDB Cloud: Data Science with Less Engineering

The Helicopter View TileDB Cloud is a serverless solution that allows data scientists to collaborate and work faster, fo...
author

Seth Shelnutt

CTO, TileDB
6 min read